A higher-dimensional incarnation, starting by leveraging the stars.

Chapter 17 No, this is the execution ground.

Proxima Centauri B

Kunse's thoughts froze and shattered rapidly in the extreme cold and deathly silence.

He huddled in a hollow in the cold, iron-like, dark red rock, his obese body a perfect conductor of heat. His expensive silk clothing was as thin as paper, offering no insulation whatsoever. His teeth had long since stopped chattering, for his jaw muscles were frozen stiff. His skin was an ominous bluish-purple, covered with a thin layer of white frost.

Time lost its meaning. Perhaps hours had passed, perhaps only minutes, but the unbearable thirst replaced the initial biting cold, becoming the main torture for Kunse. His lips were cracked, his throat felt like it was being rubbed with sandpaper, and every weak breath tasted of blood.

Driven by the instinct for survival, he trudged along the jagged rocks like a worm. His vision was blurred, his hearing was filled with deathly silence, and his sense of touch was almost numb. With only a sliver of consciousness remaining, he searched for any place that might contain moisture.

Finally, deep in a sheltered crevice between rocks, his fingers touched something unusually moist.

water!

Clear water flowed down the cracks in the rocks. At this moment, Kunse could no longer think rationally. Like a dying beast, he buried his face in the narrow crevice, stuck out his stiff tongue, and greedily and frantically licked the cold, astringent "water".

"That's enough for this lifetime. It would be impolite to go any further!" Hu Biao laughed as he watched Kunse's crazy behavior.

Proxima Centauri b, an Earth-like planet, holds a very special place in the astronomy of Earth because astronomers have found that its size, gravity, and location are so similar to Earth's in the solar system that it is very likely to have liquid water and may even be capable of supporting life.

Hu Biao, who was able to experience the situation firsthand, could give them a definitive answer.

Yes, this planet has water. Yes, this planet has life!

It's just that the creatures on this planet are a bit difficult to get along with.

For Earthlings, the living environment on this planet is rather harsh, and the air is rather thin. However, the place that Hu Biao chose is the most human-friendly environment, which is a combination of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Siberian winter. It is still possible to survive, even for humans. Other creatures can also survive.

For some extremophiles, this place is paradise, their home where they have evolved for millions of years.

Hu Biao was just a high school student and had no way of knowing what kind of creatures lived in the water sources on this planet. He couldn't even see them. He could only judge from the reactions of the animals that drank the water and the inferior humans that there should be a kind of microorganism in the water of this planet that was extremely deadly to humans or to life on Earth.

They entered the bodies of mammals along with the water source, and the warm environment inside the mammals seemed to be an evolutionary paradise for them...

In the extreme environment, Kunse was on the verge of death and in despair. Finding water was just an instinct, a way to make his death more comfortable. But as the icy water flowed down his throat, his nerves, which had been frozen numb, seemed to come alive at that moment, and he regained consciousness...

At first, he only felt a slight tingling and stinging sensation on his tongue and throat after licking the "water." Then, the tingling sensation spread rapidly like wildfire to his esophagus and stomach, and then through his circulatory system to his limbs and bones! It was not ordinary pain, but rather as if millions of tiny, invisible insects were frantically gnawing, burrowing, and multiplying from inside his body!

"Uh...ah..."

He tried to scream, but could only manage broken gasps from deep in his throat. His body began to convulse violently and uncontrollably, and large, moving, and changing dark red patches appeared on his skin, as if something was moving and gathering beneath it. His eyes bulged out, bloodshot, and his vision was obscured by a strange, ever-proliferating patch of fungus.

These strange aquatic life forms, upon entering Kunse, a nutrient-rich and "superior" environment, began to reproduce and evolve at an exponential rate. They decomposed his fat, muscle, and internal organs...

Kunse's abdomen began to swell unnaturally, his skin becoming translucent, revealing swarms of strangely colored bacteria swirling beneath. His fingers and toes began to ulcerate and fall off, exposing the stark white bone, which was visibly eroding and becoming brittle. His face twisted and deformed, and from his seven orifices flowed a thick, foul-smelling pus that was not blood…

He rolled and writhed on the ground, scratching his body with his last ounce of strength, leaving deep, bone-revealing scratches that were quickly covered by fungal plaque. His consciousness collapsed completely in endless pain and fear...

This process is slow and cruel!

When the last bit of organic matter was exhausted, Kunse's convulsions finally stopped. His once obese body had vanished, replaced by a tattered skeleton, hollowed out and covered with a thick layer of constantly writhing, colorful fungal carpet. Even this skeleton, under the erosion of the acidic substances secreted by the fungi, gradually softened and decomposed, eventually merging completely into the dark red rock.

Hu Biao simply watched quietly. He had seen this scene countless times in recent days, and his heart remained completely unmoved.

Only after the last bit of Kunse disappeared did a glint flash in Hu Biao's eyes. "This fertile and fertile bed should be enough, right?!"

Less than three seconds later, the dark red rock suddenly moved, and a thin, white thing, about two millimeters in size, emerged and quickly disappeared into the water flowing through the crevice.

"Another one has appeared! This is the legendary evolution! What a great specimen! Too bad I haven't gone to university yet, my knowledge is insufficient!?"

Hu Biao's eyes lit up, like a lab technician who had made a major discovery while observing microorganisms in a petri dish.

He had witnessed this scene more than once. As a prospective college student, his acquired knowledge and extensive reading experience could vaguely tell him what had happened on this desolate planet, but he only knew the facts, not the reasons behind them...

It could be evolution, or it could just be the growth of a species. He really didn't know the specifics due to his limited knowledge!

"Yes, this is indeed a suitable testing ground. Once I go to university and learn relevant professional knowledge, I can set up a laboratory here!"

The thought flashed through his mind, and he shook his head to clear his mind of the distractions. His gaze turned to a glass bottle on the desk, inside which was a strangely shaped "model".

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